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My thanks to Prof. Alter for his careful, kind, and cautionary commentary. I shall try to live up to the standard he has set.
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The reduction of classical atomic theory to sub-atomic physics, for example, involved observables or appearances at neither level of the reduction. And the reduction of the Greek ‘planets’ (i.e., wandering stars) to the planets of Newtonian physics involved observables or appearances at both levels of the reduction. In addition, I agree that a sensation-of-red does not seem to be a neural activation-triplet. There is an appearance/reality distinction right there.
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Churchland, P.M. (2014). Response to Torin Alter. In: Brown, R. (eds) Consciousness Inside and Out: Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Experience. Studies in Brain and Mind, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6001-1_6
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